State Public Insurance Coverage Policies and Postpartum Care Among Immigrants.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Professional medical organizations recommend that adults receive routine postpartum care. Yet, some states restrict public insurance coverage for undocumented immigrants and recently documented immigrants (those who received legal documentation status within the past 5 years).

Objective

To examine the association between public insurance coverage and postpartum care among low-income immigrants and the difference in receipt of postpartum care among immigrants relative to nonimmigrants.

Design, setting, and participants

A pooled, cross-sectional analysis was conducted using data from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System for 19 states and New York City including low-income adults with a live birth between 2012 and 2019.

Exposure

Giving birth

SUBMITTER: Steenland MW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10354679 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature